Snap-hook.



1. JACOBSON.

- SNAP HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. I2. 19M.

Patented Sept. 7, 1915.

JOHN JACOBSON, 0F STANLEYJNORTH DAKOTA.

SNAP-HOOK.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, .TOIIN .Taconson, a citizen of the United States, residing at Stanley, in the county of l'vlountrail and State of North Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Snap- Hooks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. 7

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in snap hooks.

It has for its object the production of a hook, composed simply of two pieces of Wire so constructed and arranged that the hook can be readily and cheaply manufactured andwill be effective in use.

In order that those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may know how to make and use my improved hook and fully appreciate its advantages, I will proceed to describe the same referring by numerals to the accompanying drawing in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of my improved snap hooks. Fig. 2 is a front view, and Fig. 3, a section on the line (Ir-a of Fig. 2. 4

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in the several figures of the drawing.

- a purpose presently explained. The shoulders 55, downwardly extending bend 6-6,

and the overlapped ends of the wire 77, coactto form a base from which the bill proj'ects.

9, is av second or spring member also composed of a single piece of spring wire bent at the middle as seen at 10 to form a resilient tongue, the ends'then carried down divergently to form legs 11, wound or coiled one or more times as at 12, around the shoulders Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. Ti, 1915.

Application filed December 12, 1914. Serial No. 876,907.

5, 5, of the back member, thence downwardly as at 13, and finally coiled once as at 14 around-the parallel overlaying ends 7 of the back member, thus binding these ends in their parallel relation while the slight bends S prevent the escape from the binding coils 14.

'lVhile both members may be made of wire of the same gage, I prefer to make the front or spring member of smaller gage thus obtaining better spring action.

It will be seen that the loop-like extremity of the bill 2, of the back member is somewhat broader than the lip 10, of the front or V spring member so that the latter may take position between the sides of the hill 2, and thus prevent any body with which the hook is connected from escaping until the spring tongue is pressed sufiiciently far toward the back of the stiff member.

lVith machinery for bending and shaping wire, it will be readily understood that my improved snap hooks may be expeditiously and cheaply manufactured and that they will be effective for the purpose in view.

Attentibn is called to the fact that the terminals of the back members positioned in overlaying parallelism and bound together by the coils 14, COIlStitUt. a strong and rigid cross bar by which the hook may be readily secured to a suitable strap or rope, etc.

Vhat I claim as new and desire to' secure by Letters Patent is A snap hook formed of two pieces of wire, one bent to provide a bill having divergent legs, the wire at the-ends of the legs being bent outwardly to provide shoulders and then extended parallel to the bill and then bent in parallel overlapped relation transversely to the bill to form a cross bar, the wire forming the tongue being bent to provide divergent legs the ends of which are coiled around said shoulders and then again coiled around the cross bar. v

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

. JOHN JACOBSON.

Witnesses H. J. LINon, JULIA M. LINDE. 

